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Dâmit il 'Alayā

About 100 metres to the southeast of the tower is
a handsome wall with base mouldings and cornice
and with an opening in the middle, ornamented along
the jambs and across its lintel with heavy grape vine.
This portal was published in a photograph by Dussard.
The photo shows also the inscription of Athena in large
letters in relief above the portal. The base moulding of
the wall is Nabataean in sections like some in Sîʿ, the
cornice is of rightlined section. Two stone doors are
still in situ. This fine portal apparently led into
a sanctuary at one side of the tower; there are no remains
of a temple within the wall, and there is scarcely room for one
except a very small one, between the wall and the S.E.
angle of the wall about the tower.

Tomb. East of the tower, in the same basalt ridge, there are
the remains of a small building which was either a
tomb or a very small shrine. Only foundations are in
situ but much building stone and many bits of moulding -
voussoirs and pier caps - lie about. There seems to have been
2 arches. The key stone found was sculptured. Faced E.